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Do you need more Fans?

How to choose the best cards to buy!

I play or have invested in almost every game created and developed on the Hive blockchain, I'm missing Hashkings but will start playing very soon.
All games on Hive require an initial investment except one: Rising Star.

Risign Star is a fun and easy to play game but it is above all a game that belongs to the Free To Play category because it does not have a registration fee and does not require an initial investment.
After logging in for the first time, the Rising Star player can complete his first mission, called Illegal Busking, for free.

The reward for completing the Illegal Busking mission is a random amount of STARBITS tokens in the value range [1 - 60].

In the most likely case (the average case: (1+60)/2) a new Rising Star player will get about 30 STARBITS tokens from completing his mission.

Before I started writing this post I completed 3 Illegal Busking missions and got:

37 STARBITS tokens (first mission)
10 STARBITS tokens (second mission)
55 STARBITS tokens (third mission)

STARBITS tokens are second level tokens on the Hive blockchain and can be bought, sold or transferred from any of the following sites:

Today January 15, 2021 the value of 1 STARBITS token is:

0.000125 SWAP.HIVE = (Highest BID)
0.000137 SWAP.HIVE = (Lowest Ask)

From completing the three Illegal Busking missions I have earned 102 STARBITS tokens whose value is 0.01277 SWAP.HIVE = $0.0167

I completed the 3 Illegal Busking missions just to show a possible start of a new Rising Star player but I have been a Rising Star player for over a year and the missions I complete daily have much higher rewards.

The missions and the "FANS Needed" requirement

The main part of the Rising Star game is the Missions section.
The missions are divided into 4 game zones and each game zone has a list of 7 missions that you can complete.
All missions have a minimum of 4 entry requirements:

minimum number of Fans.

Minimum Level to carry out the mission
amount of time needed to complete the mission
minimum amount of energy.

In each game zone the mission requirements have increasing values and the higher these values are, the higher the rewards you can get.

In this post I will focus on the Minimum number of FANS (Fans Needed) requirement of the missions and show how to increase the number of Fans permanently and as conveniently as possible while also taking into consideration an important element of the Rising Star game which is the EGO.

How to increase the number of FANS

Each Rising Star player has a Number of FANS which is given by the following sum:

Temporary FANS Number + Fixed FANS Number.

Temporary FANS can be obtained as an additional reward for completing missions.
They are called temporary because they have a limited time duration: 12 hours.

Fixed FANS are the result of the sum of the FANS attributes of the cards that make up a card collection.

The number of FANS can be seen in the Missions section of Rising Star (see image below).

It is unlikely that a Rising Star player will be able to complete the missions with the highest rewards in the first game zone (Home Town) with good frequency if they rely on luck and temporary FANS.

To permanently increase the number of FANS, it is necessary to buy cards from the Rising Star market.
Rising Star is not only a Free to Play game, but also an NFT-based game, and there are many cards that can be used to increase the number of FANS.

Rising Star cards can have up to four of the following attributes:

FANS
SKILL
LUCK
IM

To increase the number of FANS, simply purchase one or more cards that have the FANS attribute greater than 0.

For example, the R4 Female Rapper card has the following attributes:

FANS: 50
SKILL: 200
LUCK: 4
IM: 3

By purchasing this card, you can permanently increase the number of FANS by 50.

Which cards should you buy?

How to choose the best cards to buy in order to increase the number of NSAIDs (also taking into account the EGO factor)

In the game of Rising Star cards that have the FANS attribute greater than 0 are of four different types:

People cards (not all but only a subset of these cards)
Vehicles cards
Boosters cards (the Fan Boost cards)
Festival cards

In the game of Rising Star there is one important element to always consider: the EGO.
The EGO is an element that if not neutralized (EGO = 0) produces a decrease in the maximum reward of all missions.

Purchasing a card whose FANS attribute value is greater than the SKILL attribute value produces an increase in the EGO value.

If you want to know more about the EGO, I have explained in detail the mechanism of functioning of the EGO in the Rising Star game and I have provided possible solutions in a previous post:

Link: https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/rising-star-introduction-for-beginners--the-ego-effects-and-solutions-introduction-to-the-game--ego-effects-and-solutions-engit

To increase the number of FANS without also increasing the value of EGO I recommend buying only cards of type People that have the value of the FANS attribute less than or equal to the value of the SKILL attribute.

There are a total of 78 Rising Star cards that meet the FANS <= SKILL condition.

The FANS/HIVE ratio and the FANS/$ ratio

When I need to increase the number of my FANS I purchase the cards that have the best FANS/HIVE (or FANS/$) ratio.

The FANS/HIVE ratio indicates how many FANS I get for each HIVE token spent in purchasing a card that has the FANS attribute > 0.

The FANS/$ ratio indicates how many FANS I get for each dollar spent in the purchase of a card that has the FANS attribute > 0.

The best card to buy will be the one with the highest FANS/HIVE ratio value.

It is only necessary to calculate one of the two ratios, and the easiest to calculate is the FANS/HIVE ratio.

To calculate the FANS/HIVE ratio and the FANS/$ ratio I built myself a simple spreadsheet.

In the following image you can see all the cards for sale on the Rising Star market and the values of the FANS/HIVE ratio and the values of the FANS/$ ratio in relation to the two prices on the market for each card:

price in SWAP.HIVE
price in STARBITS

Today, January 15, 2021, the best possible purchase is the R131 Star Child card which has the highest FANS/HIVE ratio value (146.00) when purchased using STARBITS tokens as a payment method.

My purchases

I currently have a fixed number of FANS equal to 2169 but I need a total number of 3000 FANS in order to do the Full Band Headline mission of the County Tour area.

Thanks to the FANS/HIVE report indication, I selected and purchased the following cards:

N.1 R131 Star Child card - 7499 STARBITS - FANS/HIVE: 146.00
N.4 cards R131 Star Child - 7900 STARBITS - FANS/HIVE: 138.59
N.1 card R109 Trevor - 5900 STARBITS - FANS/HIVE: 123.71

To make the purchase, I used https://nftm.art/buy/star which allows you to speed up the purchase of multiple cards at once and spent a total of 44999 STARBITS tokens.

After the purchase I went to the "Your Collection" section of Rising Star and clicked on "CLICK HERE" to add the purchased cards to my card collection.
This is required every time you purchase a card or open a pack of Rising Star cards.

After my purchase I updated the table and if you, dear reader, need to increase the number of your FANS you can buy the cards shown in the following image ;)

How to calculate the FANS/HIVE ratio and the FANS/$ ratio

If you also want to calculate the FANS/$ ratio and the FANS/HIVE ratio you need the following input data:

the value in HIVE of the STARBITS tokens
the $ value of HIVE tokens
the value of STARBITS tokens in dollars and in HIVE
the market value of Rising Star cards (STARBITS and SWAP.HIVE)

Then you just need to enter some simple formulas into your spreadsheet.

To calculate the FANS/HIVE ratio (using SWAP.HIVE) the formula is as follows:

Card FANS points / (Price in SWAP.HIVE of the card).

To calculate the ratio FANS/HIVE (using STARBITS) the formula is as follows:

Card FANS Points / (Price in STARBITS of the card * Value of 1 STARBITS in HIVE).

To calculate the FANS/$ ratio (using SWAP.HIVE) the formula is as follows:

Card FANS points / (Price in SWAP.HIVE of the card * Value of 1 HIVE in $)

For the FANS/$ ratio (using STARBITS) the formula is as follows:

FANS points of the card / (Price in STARBITS of the card * Value of 1 STARBITS in $)

Calculating the value of 1 STARBITS in $ is even easier:

Value of 1 STARBITS in HIVE * Value of 1 HIVE in $

Rising Star = Free 2 Play = Play 2 Earn!

I hope you liked this post and I thank you for reading and taking the time to read it :)

Are you not a Rising Star player?

If you decide to register at Rising Star, you can do it from this link:

https://www.risingstargame.com?referrer=libertycrypto27

of course only if you like to use my refferal link... :)

Do you want to know 6 reasons why you should play Rising Star?
Read the following post: https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/6-reasons-why-you-should-play-rising-star-6-motivi-per-cui-dovresti-giocare-a-rising-star-engita

A selection of my previous posts on Rising Star

	Rising Star: Introduction for Beginners + The EGO: Effects and Solutions / Introduzione al Gioco + EGO: Effetti e Soluzioni (ENG/ITA)
	6 reasons why you should play Rising Star! / 6 motivi per cui dovresti giocare a Rising Star (ENG/ITA)
	I'm finally a Millionaire! / Finalmente sono un Milionario! (ENG/ITA)
	RECORD STAKING: an interesting new use case for STARBITS tokens / Un interessante nuovo caso d'uso per i token STARBITS (ENG/ITA)
	CRAFTING: Interesting New Update In The Rising Star Game / Interessante nuovo aggiornamento nel gioco di Rising Star (ENG/ITA)
	Three very useful cards / Tre carte molto utili (ENG/ITA)

Unless otherwise indicated, the images in this post are screenshots taken from the game's website Rising Star
and the sites:
https://tribaldex.com/
https://nftm.art/buy/star
Images containing calculations, tables and formulas are my property
The font used in my images or edited by me is Open Source

Important Note:

Blockchain-based games that allow people to buy and sell tokens and NFT are not just games but are also investments and should be treated as such!
In any type of investment there is always a risk factor to evaluate and consider.
I am not a financial advisor and the information contained in this post is not financial advice.
Before investing in a blockchain-based game you should always do your own research and personal evaluations.

My advice is to always only invest what you can afford to lose with a light heart!

Rising Star: Need more Fans? How to choose the best cards to buy!